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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (16 children)

Targeting particular neurons with ultrasound is a long way from mind control.

[–]NuclearBadger 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (15 children)

The fact they want to try is potatoes though.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

It's a plausible treatment for epilepsy, and possible that it could assist with treatment of chronic pain, Alzheimer's, OCD and other psychological disorders could be treated in some cases. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00150/full

And roll on medical science.

It's not plausible that it could be used for mind control.

[–]NuclearBadger 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I mean why bother, there's enough people who follow them blindly that speaking on a tv is enough.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fair call

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

"Control" is a broad word. Manipulation is more accurate. It's easy to irritate someone. Do it enough and they're angry or afraid or foggy. Do it enough and they're not thinking clearly, disabled, irrational. Etc. Imagine all the other ways to manipulate states and manufacture emotions.

[–]Gaslov 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Just stop. There is no way to mind control a person through sound waves.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Manipulate.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

There's no way to do that either.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Influence.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

By targeting particular neurons?

How advanced do you think neuroscience is?

We know that damage to particular parts of the brain is usually represented as dysfunction of certain aspects of function or personality, but how that dysfunction is manifested is completely unknown. And some people have sequestrated another part of the brain to do a job that most people do in a particular part, to round around damage, or just because their brain development wasn't typical for some unknown reason.

And apart from noticing activity or lack of activity during events like hallucination or epilepsy or dreaming by detecting increased blood flow, that's where we're at.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I used the word influence because we are creatures living in an unnatural environment and at times we do not react perfectly to the environment we created for ourselves. The brain is sensitive to certain environmental factors such as electro magnetic fields, light frequencies and sound waves, which can affect how we think or feel. Exposure to specific factors can cause people to become agitated, for example.

There has long been research into projecting audio remotely, primarily for advertising. We are already capable of using technology to read a persons thoughts or to control a mouse cursor using our brain waves alone, how long do you think it will be before we have a greater grasp of the mind from a distance?

https://gizmodo.com/we-will-beam-advertisements-directly-into-your-brain-390600

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thankfully, there is still no medicine to cure this kind of megalomania.

[–]RandumbZer0 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder which spectrum those specific waves function in..?